Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 3:45:56 pm
Our free high-powered blogging system for registered users has a new feature today! To make sharing your LGF Pages on Twitter, Facebook, and Google+ more interesting and appealing, we now let you upload an image (called the "Meta Image" because you don't actually see it in the post here at ...

Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 2:04:27 pm
Image via Shutterstock The Sydney Morning Herald has a piece on the man who made a lot of Internet system administrators' lives miserable this week, the German programmer who introduced the Heartbleed bug into the OpenSSL code. There's been way too much embarrassing noobish speculation from some quarters of the journalistic arena ...

Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 9:04:57 am
YouTube SOURCES: 1:48 "Recent Ice-Sheet Growth in the Interior of Greenland" Ola M. Johannessen et al, Science November 2005 2:10 "Recent Greenland Ice Mass Loss by Drainage System from Satellite Gravity Observations" -- S. B. Luthcke, et al., Science November 2006 2:12 "Melting of Greenland Ice Sheet Satellite Gravity Measurements ...

Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 3:36:56 pm
I'll need to put the LGF web server into maintenance mode for a short time, probably within the next 3 hours, in order to complete some work cleaning up the mess created by this nasty Heartbleed apocalypse you might have heard about. The good news is that our servers are ...

Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 10:53:20 am
SoundCloud Somebody really needs to tell Republicans to just stop talking about slavery, because it's clear that despite all their propaganda about "rebranding" and "outreach," 149 years after the end of the Civil War they still don't get it: Jim DeMint Asserts the Federal Government Played No Role in Freeing the ...

Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 2:38:35 pm
The big Friday announcement at LGF is the launch of our new mobile version for smartphone browsers. This has been on the drawing board for waaay too long, and it gives me great pleasure to finally throw it out there into the jungle of the Internets and see if it ...

Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 5:15:53 pm
Vimeo Bill Moyers takes on radical-right Republicans for denying the science behind evolution and climate change, showing a video clip of Rep. Paul Broun (R-GA), chairman of oversight and investigations for the Science, Space and Technology Committee of the US House of Representatives, who says evolution is a lie "straight ...

Sat, Mar 29, 2014 at 12:27:06 pm
Well, that didn't take long. Recently, Nate Silver's new media venture FiveThirtyEight hired one of the most notorious "climate skeptics," Roger Pielke Jr., as their science writer. Today, Silver is apologizing for Pielke, after Pielke's very first article was severely criticized by climate scientists and he responded by sending them ...

Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 10:50:44 am
The right wing media are staging another one of their absurd freak-out sessions, this time pretending to be gravely offended by the use of wire coat hangers as a symbol of illegal abortion. And rarely have I read such a truly despicable example of anti-choice propaganda as Kevin D. Williamson's disgusting ...

Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:53:35 am
The NY Satanic Temple plans on giving the same holy ceremony they did for Fred's mother -- the Pink Mass. Lucien Greaves, the head of the Satanic Temple, has some "heartfelt"(?) words about the planned event: At the time, I predicted that Fred hadn't too much longer till he would pass, ...

Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 2:01:35 pm
This image and others like it are making the rounds within conservative and other Tea Party-affiliated social media. Rightwing meme on race In favor of accuracy, below is a fact-check on each of these points: Who started the KKK? Nathan Bedford Forrest, a former Confederate Lieutenant General and war criminal (Fort Pillow massacre). He ...

Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 5:22:58 pm
Via Business Insider, here's the full text of US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power's strong statement on Russia and Ukraine, from today's meeting of the Security Council. Thank you Madam President. Listening to the representative of Russia, one might think that Moscow had just become the rapid response arm ...

Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 11:14:41 am
I was about to write that it was nice to see a Republican standing up to the all-powerful anti-science wing of the party for a change, but then I checked, and Gov. Jay Nixon is a Democrat, which comes as no surprise at all: Evolution Bill Not Best for Education, ...

Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 12:00:56 pm
Video The good thing about Bill Nye debating these right wing demagogues is that people get to see how completely deranged and disconnected from reality they are. In this clip from Meet the Press, Tennessee GOP Rep. Marsha Blackburn is our case in point, as she actually insists increased carbon dioxide ...

Fri, Feb 14, 2014 at 10:45:24 am
More: How One Billionaire's Idea to Give Rich People More Votes Is Already in the Works Asked for an idea that could "change the world," billionaire venture capitalist Tom Perkins told an audience at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco on Thursday that Americans shouldn't be able to vote unless ...

Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 12:50:48 pm
Get ready for another round of "I Stand With Rand" proclamations from the libertarians on the left, as Rand Paul Sues Obama Over NSA Surveillance. WASHINGTON (AP) -- Republican Sen. Rand Paul and a tea-party backed group are suing the Obama administration over the National Security Agency's phone record collection ...

Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 9:57:35 am
Media Matters On the February 7 edition of Fox News' Special Report, guest host Chris Wallace set up a segment on proposed carbon emission regulations by protesting that "President Obama has declared climate change a fact," despite "objections from many dissenters." Correspondent Doug McKelway followed up with a report that continued ...

Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 1:56:57 pm
In the same vein as the previous post by Gus about the ludicrous GOP Texas Lt. Governor candidate debates, we turn to South Carolina, where the Tea Party candidates for Senate are also having what they're optimistically calling a debate. On Planet Tea, however, they basically agree on everything (they ...

Fri, Jan 24, 2014 at 10:13:30 am
Lawyers depart after Mark Steyn insults the judge in his defamation lawsuit on-air. Weisberg's order is just the latest in a string of setbacks, which have left the climate-change skeptics' case in disarray. Earlier this month, Steptoe & Johnson, the law firm representing the National Review and its writer, Mark ...

Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 10:31:18 am
Say what you want about Fox News, but they do know their target audience: Fundamentalist Christian pastor Robert Jeffress appeared Monday night on The O'Reilly Factor to discuss his new book, Perfect Ending, which suggests the president's policies were conditioning Americans to rely on the government and make them vulnerable ...

Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 9:40:30 am
Here's the complete speech on proposed NSA reforms given by President Obama today, for the record. As Prepared for Delivery - At the dawn of our Republic, a small, secret surveillance committee born out of the "The Sons of Liberty" was established in Boston. The group's members included Paul Revere, and at ...

Fri, Jan 10, 2014 at 6:32:43 pm
Despite having backed a state's right to ignore Federal laws in the past, Ted Cruz has now decided to support a strong Federal government enforcing its rules on the States. Voters in Colorado and Washington state voted to legalize the recreational use of marijuana in 2013, but federal law still ...

Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 10:20:10 am
Once upon a time, Republican philanderer Newt Gingrich seemed like one of the saner members of the GOP on the subject of climate change, but those days are long gone. Like the rest of his party, Gingrich has now regressed into pure caveman behavior, with one of the stupidest statements ...

Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 10:48:55 am
Erick Bennett, a conservative challenger to Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) who was convicted of assaulting his wife in 2003, argued that his continued denial of the charge shows his political integrity. "The fact that I have been jailed repeatedly for not agreeing to admit to something I didn't do should ...

Thu, Dec 12, 2013 at 5:48:37 pm
Twitter has made a disastrous decision about their user interface, and Leigh Honeywell has one of the best posts on what it means, and how to get around it: Changes to Twitter's Block Behavior - and a Workaround. Twitter posted an update today to their blocking functionality. In my opinion, ...